Oak Tree Media

Author Diehl, Lesley A.

Lesley retired from her life as a professor of psychology and
reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage in the
Butternut River Valley in upstate New York. In the winter she migrates
to old Florida—cowboys, scrub palmetto, and open fields of grazing
cattle, a place where spurs still jingle in the post office. In her
words, “I come to the “Big Lake” to write, hang out in cowboy bars,
and immerse myself in the Florida that used to be. No beaches, no
bikinis, no sand. Just cows, horses, and gators.”